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Updated: June 26, 2025
"I must speak to her, neighbour; I must, must, and will dear, dear child: come up with me, sir, come; do not trifle with a breaking heart, neighbour!" There was a heart still in that hard-baked old East Indian. It was impossible to resist such an appeal: so the two elders crept up stairs, and knocked softly at her chamber-door.
For so small a place they certainly put a wonderfully strong team into the field; on their own native "bog" they are fairly invincible, though we fancy on the hard-baked clay at Lord's their bowlers would lose a little of their cunning.
They are also busy now flailing grain on ancient threshing-floors of hard-baked earth, or grinding it in mills operated by a single donkey. In this part of China the mound-like graves of the millions possibly billions of the Chinese dead are even more in evidence than in the northern provinces.
He dreamed of the camp one night. The tussle with Matt Burton had really come, at last. Fortunately he awoke before he was badly damaged. Spencer was reaching over from his cot and tapping his face with his cane. "Get up, Brick! Get up! Brick is a good name for you, my hard-baked friend. Get up! This tent will be in the next county in five minutes. Get up!
I concluded that they were observing a solemn fast. At length the fisherman returned, looking very hot and dusty, and of course thirsty. He was accompanied by a hard-baked man of about sixty a peasant, apparently, but one who had put on his best clothes in view of an important bargain that was to be made.
And when the cowboy had dismounted and limped aside the sheriff continued, "Is this the hoss you ride most?" "He's the only one I have." Burley sat down upon the edge of the porch and, carefully unwrapping the package, he disclosed some pieces of hard-baked yellow mud. The smaller ones bore the imprint of a circle with a dot in the center, very clearly defined.
The man scraped a groove half an inch deep in hard-baked soil, with a pointed stick, scattered therein the dustlike seeds of the dwarf blue lobelia as thickly as if he had been sprinkling sugar on some very sour article, then proceeded to trample them into the earth with all the force of very heavy feet.
The ground is favourable to pedestrianism in the darkness. The surface, hard-baked by the sun, is level as a set flagstone, and in most places so smooth that a carriage could run upon it as on the drive of a park. Well for them it is so. Had the path been a rugged one the wounded man would not go far before giving out. Even as it is, the toil soon begins to tell on his wasted strength.
All is either earth, sometimes as hard-baked as stone, or large blocks of stone, but chiefly very small chips of stone covering the entire surface. Our Arabs ask me, "Whether I prefer travelling by land or sea?" They imagine Christians, when they travel, necessarily travel by sea.
For a season every year the unveiled Indian sun in a sky of polished steel glares with cruel pitiless eye. The light is fierce. Then, arbitrarily, as it seems, the rains may be withheld, and the hard-baked, heat-cracked soil never softens to admit the ploughshare, and hundreds of thousands of the cultivators and field hands are overtaken by famine.
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